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Allen, Middle East
Expert, Is Appointed
Ambassador to Iran
By th« Associated Press
President Truman today named
George V. Allen, State Depart
ment expert on the Middle East
and the Russo-Iranian dispute,
to be Ambassador to Iran, one of
the world’s diplomatic hot spots.
Mr. Truman also announced at a
news conference that he had chosen
45-year-old Edwin F. Stanton, now
on assignment as consul general at
Vancouver, Canada, to be Minister
to Siam, one of the key countries
In the future development of Soutlv
ern Asia.
Mr. Allen, 42, and a native of
Durham. N. C., will leave Washing
ton "as soon as possible,” State De
partment officials said, to replace
Ambassador Wallace Murray at
Teheran. Mr. Murray, who is ill,
is scheduled to leave Teheran to
morrow with his wife. In the mean
time, the post will be filled tem
porarily by Angus Ward of the Em
bassy staff.
Will Hurry to Iran Post.
Mr. Allen will cut through the
usual formalities of departure in
order ts get to his post quickly, it
was said, because of the disturbed
state of affairs in Iran and the im
portance of the Iranian case before
the United Nations Security Council.
The Ambassador’s job in Teheran
is mainly a double barrelled affair
_of (1) reporting to the United States
^Government everything that hap
pens there of political importance
and c2> keeping the Iranian govern
ment informed of American views
a.pd policies on such explosive prob
lems as Iran's dispute with Russia.
Mr. Allen entered diplomatic serv
ice in 1930 after working as a news
paper reporter and school teacher.
Since 1930 he has served in the dip
lomatic service in the Far East, the
Middle East and the State Depart
Mr. Stanton, a native of Bouck
ville, N. Y., began his career as a
student interpreter in China in
1921, had a great variety of Far
Eastern assignments and only in
recent months was named to the
consul general post at Vancouver
Replaces George Atcheson.
In the appointment to Bangkok
Mr. Stanton replaces George Atche
son. who was named American en
voy to Siam, but never took his post
because he was stopped en route
to serve as diplomatic adviser to
Gen. MacArthur.
Mr. Truman said the Secretary
of State would give Mr. Allen what
the President called the usual in
structions.
At the same time. Mr. Truman
said he is not considering anybody
for appointment to the diplomatic
post at Rome, that he was satisfied
with the man he had.
Alexander Kirk is now at the Em
bassy in Rome.
Test Puts V-2 Range
120 Miles Above Earth
By the Associated Press
WHITE SANDS. N. Mex., April
17.—‘‘Guided missiles” were fired
yesterday at the White Sands Prov-.
ing Grounds In what the Army
guardedly described as a prelimi
nary to the first actual test firing
of the German V-2 rocket in this
country.
The activity was witnessed by
Army engineers and scientists.
They were reported unofficially to
have gathered to see one of the
missiles shot an estimated 120 miles
into the air. Plans were said to
call for aiming the rocket at a 90
degree angle with the expectation it
would return to earth 30 miles from
the launching platform.
Col. Harold R. Turner, White
Sands commandant, would not say
whether the “guided missiles” ac
tually were V-2s. He said results of
th* tests would not be disclosed be
fore a May 10 demonstration to
which newsmen will be invited.
Engines of a V-2 were tested last
month by static firing, in which the
rocket was securely anchored to pre
vent a takeoff.
Havre de Grace Results
Weather Clear. Track Fast.
FIRST RACE—Purst. $2,500; special
weight: 2-year-olds; 4 furlongs,
c Manchac (A Snell’gs) ‘20.60 6.70 3.60
Good Example <J. Gilbert) 3.30 2.50
With Honor <S. Walters! 3.80
Time. 0:48.
Also ran—-Ginger. L’Heure. Comely Babe,
lunch Quest. Regularity, c Raol. Gilded
Trump
c S. W. Labroi. 1r.. entry.
Jamaica Results
Weather clear. Track fast.
FIRST RACE—Purse. $3,500; special
weights: maidens; 'l-year-olds; 5 furlongs.
L Oiseau Bleu (Jessop) 4.60 2.60 2.60
Hat Girl (Woodhouse) 2.TO 2.50
Clean Job (Onorato) 7.80
Time. 1:00
Also ran—-Queen Donna. Top Knot. Im
Perleuse. Town Betty, Half Shot and Fly
ing Bimy.
SECOND RACE—Purse. $3,000; claim
ing: 3-year-olds12 6 furlongs
D md Baby (T. At'son) 10.90 6 70 5.20
Col. Wiggins (J. L’dem 22.10 12.30
Irish Count fP. Kozyckl) 14.90
Time. 1:13.
Also ran—Safety Edge. Farm Man. Our
Best. Musical Comedy. Stage Song. King
Pretty. La Princesse. Pete s Best, f Detach,
1 Crossus.
Jamaica Entries
FOR THURSDAY.
Weather, clear; track, fast
FIRST RACE—Purse, $3,000: claiming;
maidens; 2-year-olds; 5 furlongs.
■Gunboats --- 113 Green Dragon llfi
W. A Moore.- llfi b Shavey Lee. llfi
The Cleaner _ 113 Cellophane - llfi
a Rancor _l'l3 c Herbo -llfi
b Skeleton llfi Pal Cross - llfi
Ida A. __113 Short Reien 113
Invictus _ llfi a Scotch Double llfi
Tom Ferris . llfi c Sylvias Boy llfi
Ben De Haven llfi Cornish Knight 116
a Churn Creek Farm and Mars C. Mac
L*b<Mrs1V' C. Breen and J. P Smith entry.
c E. Schwartzhaupt and L. Gcrngross
entry.
SECOND RACE—Purse. $3,000; claim
ing: 4-year-olds and upward: 6 furlongs.
alee Girl _ 114 Spook Ship 116
Still Life _123 Lost Control 114
xxxTindell llfi Balladry -121
Hill Fox _ 119 Ballyrag -113
Big Sun _ 119 Top Beau _- 118
xxFr'dte s Game 111 xxxCol. Steve.- 114
Bright Camp . 115 xxDina Flag .- 105
Flintee 110 a Pheecia -114
a I. Bieber entry.
THIRD RACE—Purse. $3,500: special
weights, maidens, fillies; 3-year-olds; 6
furlongs. .... ,,, ,, -
Rose Halren — 115 Hyp Hi - 115
Jittery Jane __ 115 Sunshade _ 115
Prop Girl :: 115 Fighting Lady. 115
Right Oft - 115 Hi-Jo-Ann-116
xxxHelens Girl. 108
FOURTH RACE—Purse. $3,500: special
weights: maidens, fillies; 3-year-olds; 6
furlongs. _ ,. _
Ice Lady --- 115 Last Tower-116
Bells of Reigh- 115 Crowflight 116
xxCold Ray--. 110 Sunny -115
xxAndico _110 xCitable -115
Crater Lake_115' Jo-Nance -115
FIFTH RACE—Purse. $7,500; the
Johnstown; 4-year-olds and upward: in
miles. ...
Olympic Zenith 114 8tymie - 114
Proof Coil_ 114 Fighting Step 119
SIXTH RACE—Purse. $5,000: allow
ances. class C: 4-year-olds and upward:
« furlongs.
Miss Drummond 110 Coincidence - 116
Bounding Home 11 .V King Dorsett ..120
Le Havre__ 118 Sir Bim .. 120
SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $4,000: al
lowances; class D: 4-year-olds and up
ward: 1 mile*.
Battle o' Wits. 114 xxlsology .. 108
Jaeobe _ 113 xxxOx Blood -100
Thirteen 113 8ugar Report.- 113
xxxLtle 8hifter 101
xx 5 pounds apprentice allowance
Claimed
xxx 7 pounds apprentice allowance
tlalmed. ,
Listed according to poet position a
LIONS’ PRESIDENT WELCOMED—Dr. Ramiro Collazo* of Ha
vana, Cuba (left), president of Lions International, is pictured
as he was greeted last night by William F. Ryan, sr„ president
of the East Gate Lions Club, at the club’s banquet at the May
flower Hotel. Raymond G. Dunne (center), chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements for the affair, which climaxed a
pan-American program series, looks on. —Star Staff Photo.
Infra-red Method of Sighting
Enemy in Dark Demonstrated
By George Kennedy
How one can see in absolute pitch
darkness is being demonstrated to
day and tomorrow at Fort Belvoir
by the Army Engineer Board.
It’s the infra-red method that so
much has been heard about. There is
no exaggeration about it. The equip
ment allows one to see without de
creasing the darkness one b.t.
The engineer board took the lid
off infra-red yesterday when it
opened a three-day show of equip
ment it has developed and similar
devices taken from the enemy.
Infra-red snooping and signaling
in the dark was one of the hush
hush things toward the end of the
war. The Germans and the Japs
had it as well as the American
Army and Navy. Navy ships were
signaling one another with it at a
range of several miles in the combat
zone to avoid voice radio signals. The
Army had rifles equipped with infra
red lamps and telescope sights with
which GIs went hunting at nights.
Used on Okinawa.
These rifles were used on Oki
nawa, but there were not enough
of them to have much effect on
front-line fighting. Infra-red was!
also used in aerial night fighting
and antiaircraft work.
At the demonstration yesterday,
somebody first explained that when
white light passes through a prism
it breaks into an arc of the primary
colors (the spectrum* and that in
fra-red is the invisible light at the
inner edge of the arc. just as ultra
violet is the invisible light on the
outer edge. Then the guests were
taken into a black-walled tunnel.
Projecting infra-red is simple, the
lecturer explained. Since white light
contains some infra-red, all that is
necessary is to use an ordinary
searchlight with a lens that allows
only the infra-red rays to filter
through. These rays are absolutely
invisible to the human eye. But
they and the objects they touch and
reflect can be seen with special
telescopes.
The lights go out in the tunnel,
which is about 60 feet long. You
can't see a thing. Then you look
through the telescope sight of a rifle
handed you. There at the end of the
tunnel is a real soldier standing in
an artificial bush—and he’s signaling
by flashing a lamp. You can see him
plainly, but the only color seems to
be green because the mechanism of
the telescope makes a greenish light
of the infra-red rays.
Undeveloped by British.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson and Lt. Gen. Sir Gordon
MacReady were fascinated by the
infra-red equipment yesterday.
“What makes me mad.” said Sir
Gordon, “is that in 1941 when I was
the member of the general staff in
charge of equipment we were fooling
with this Infrared stuff—looking
across a dark room with it. You had
nothing. And here you have it work
ing while we are still where we were.
You can hand these problems to
your big corporations. We have
nothing like that to help us.”
Today and tomorrow representa
tives of science and Industry will
view the equipment.
SOUTH HADLEY, MASS.
MISSING HEIRESS — Miss
Dorothy Ball, 20, heiress, still
is missing from Mount Holyoke
College here, although college
authorities reported that a
young woman cousin had met
Miss Ball on a New York
street yesterday and Miss Ball
informed her that she was
taking a train to South Had
ley last night. Nothing more
had been heard from her this
afternoon. Miss Ball, daugh
ter of E. Arthur Ball, vice
president of the Ball Bros.
Manufacturing Co. of Muncie,
Ind., disappeared from the
college Monday night.
—AP Wirephoto.
Mrs. Minnie Levy Dies;
Helped Found Blake PIA
Mrs. Minnie Levy, 69 New York
avenue N.W., died yesterday at
Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. Levy was one of the organ
izers of the Blake School Parent
Teachers Association and had been
instrumental in having free lunches
provided for underprivileged chil
dren in District schools. She was
active in several charity organiza
tions and was a past president of
the Sisterhood of Adas Israel Con
gregation.
She is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. Pauline Feldmann, Mrs. Theo
Walker, Mrs. Gertrude Berkow, all
of Washington, and Mrs. Rhea
Mittman of Allentown, Pa.; five
sons, Alfred, Louis, Gilbert, Lester
and Raymond Levy, and a sister,
Mrs. Sarah Small, all of Washing
ton.
Funeral services will be held at
1 p.m. tomorrow at Geiers funeral
home, 3605 Fourteenth street N.W.
Burial will be in Adas Israel Con
gregation Cemetery.
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All Foreign Soldiers
Depart From Syria
By the Associated Press
DAMASCUS, April 17.—All for
eign soldiers have left Syrian soil
under an evacuation completed at
Monday midnight. Airports, bar
racks, and military establishments
were handed over to the Syrians.
Britain and Prance, whose troops
were the only foreign soldiers in
Syria, early last month reached an
agreement covering the withdrawal.
Soviet Trade Mission
Arrives in Argentina
By th« Associated Press
MOSCOW. April 17.—The Moscow
press announced today the arrival
of a Soviet trade delegation in
Argentina to begin negotiations
which, it was said, are expected to
result in new commercial relations
between the two countries.
The mission will confer with rep
resentatives of Argentine industrial
and trade organizations.
Keeneland Entries
FOR THURSDAY.
Weather Clear. Track Fast.
First Post. 3 P M.
FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,200: claiming;
3-year-olds and up: 0 furlongs.
xOlga 8. _113 Geneva Lad... 120
xBessie Vance. 110 xSister Fox_ 110
Try Flying_ 120 Neaqueen 115
Babeff .. .115 xBrushwood Boy 115
xStork of Peace. 115 xTtmocracy_113
xFlylng Connie. 110
_
SECOND RACE—Purse. $1,800: allow
ances: 3-year-olds and up: tl furlongs.
Begda 113 Sugar Chest _ HR
Vienna Waltx ... 113 Miss Blindfold. 11«
Flight Gal _.. 113
THIRD RACE—Purse, $1.500; allow
ances: 3-year-old»! R furlongs.
xLaundry Boy.. 112 Sunawana 112
Barval ._117 xMlss Marianna 110
xKing Gail_112 Chief Cherry... 117
FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1,500; maid
ens: 2-year-olds; Headley course.
Mrs. R. S_118 Gay Gallant ... 118
xDranik _. 113 News Report_118
Blonde Magfc_-118 Pebalong _118
a Jay .. _ ..118 Jay Forst 118
Annual Report. 118 a Black Tweetle 118
a Chambers and Chambers entry.
FIFTH RACE—Purse. $1,800; allow
ances, 3-year-olds; R furlongs.
xTav _113 Maemab .. llfi
Hashcamp_118 Spirsllla _118
Athenla _11H xTiger Tillie _. 109
SIXTH RACE—Purse. $5,000 added: 2
year-olds; Headley course.
a Colonel O F.. 117 Rhodelin _114
Gayest _ 111 Etnom _117
Little Sting . 114 Jay Forst ... 114
Sunnys Honey. Ill Check Please 114
a Tiger War 117 a Black Tweetie 114
Dainty Red 114
a Tanner and Chambers entry.
SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1,500: allow
ances; 4-year-olds and upward; 6 fur
longs.
xBusyridge ... 110 Hit It ... 112
xSon Forever . 1 lo The Sheriff _. 118
Sergeant Bill 112 Rol Rouge_118
EIGHTH RACE—Purse. $1,200; claim
ing: 4-year-olds and upward; lA miles.
Edie Jane_110 Kaopua _115
Crucible -118 xGuante _110
Queen Echo_110 xlbex _ 110
xDifflcult . .108 Little Monarch 115
x 5 pounds apprentice allowance
claimed.
Listed according to post positions.
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THE TEACHING OF
TRUE REALISM
A FREE LECTURE
ANNA E. HERZOG, C. S. B.
ef Columbus. Ohio
Member of the Board of Lecture
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in
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Stratford Street and
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Civil Service Chief
Called In to Advise
House Jail Inquiry
Plans to Improve personnel at
District Jail were discussed to
day at an executive session of
the Hebert subcommittee of the
House with Civil Service Com
missioner Arthur Flemming.
Chairman Hebert said all ques
tions affecting civil service brought
out at the hearings in the jail in
vestigation were gone over with Mr.
Flemming.
It was developed at the hearings
that the pay of a captain of guards
at District Jail is approximately that
of a private in the Metropolitan
Police Department. Commissioner
Guy Mason told the subcommittee
yesterday the Civil Service Commis
sion was not to blame for failure to
reclassify jail salaries upward, be
cause a search of the records dis
closed that the Public Welfare Board
never submitted such a request to
the District Commissioners, and con
sequently they never asked for a
pay revision.
Members of the subcommittee
realize the difficulty the District
prison administration has had in
obtaining competent employes at the
salaries allowed.
Representative Hebert had com
pleted today the tentative draft of a
report which the subcommittee
hopes to make to the House District
Committee by Friday. Copies of the
draft were sent subcommittee mem
bers.
Observers expect the subcommit
tee to recommend sweeping changes
in the methods of administering
District penal institutions, especially
the jail.
while there was considerable dis
cussion et the hearings of the pos
sibility that the Federal Bureau of
Prisons might take over these in
stitutions, this would require legis
lation.
May Ask Bennett Aid.
It also has been suggested pri
vately that pending possible legis
lation the Welfare Board might be
induced to “request-’ James V. Ben
nett, director of the Federal Bureau
of Prisons, to take control of the
jail temporarily with a view of re
organizing it.
But such an expedient would l>e
dependent on the co-operation of
the board, which is entrusted by
law with the administration of Dis
trict prisons.
The Hebert subcommittee, after
studying the tentative draft of its
report overnight, will meet in exec
utive session at 10 a.m. tomorrow to
consider its findings. The group is
expected to fix responsibility for the
two recent escapees from the death
house and to recommend measuies
to improve the jail.
Bennett Makes Recommendations.
Mr. Bennett spent several hours
in executive session with the sub
committee yesterday and afterward
said that, at the request of the
group, he made a number of recom
mendations for improvements.
Mr. Hebert planned meanwhile
to confer with Attorney General
Clark. The FBI made its own in
vestigation of the escape of Joseph
D. Medley and Earl McFarland and
its conclusions are to be made known
to the subcommittee. While it is
possible the FBI findings may alter
the committee report and could
even call for additional testimony,
Mr. Hebert explained that he was
not delaying the report on this ac
count because he felt it should be
made as soon as possible.
It was understood that FBI agents
waited to talk to McFarland, who
was recaptured in Knoxville. Tenn..
only last Thursday and brought back
Monday, before completing their in
vestigation. It was assumed they
earlier interrogated Medley, who
was caught in the city a few hours
after the break from the death
house April 3.
Havre de Grace Entries
FOR THURSDAY.
Weather Clear. Track Fast.
First Post. 2:15 PM.
FIRST RACE—Purse, $2.5011: claiming.
2- year-olds; maidens: 4 furlongs
Tabouret _ lift xMiss Vagabond 112
a Saints Mount. 11Discerning Eye 113
xGifted Miss 1 OH a Falchion lit!
xOround Signal ION Ud Tick 113
Big Affair. 110 Helen's Dream 11"
a L. G. La Fatvre. Jr., entry.
SECOND RACE—Purse. $2,500; 3-year
olds: maidens: ti furlongs.
True Dream . 120 a Hush Hush 115
Fanturbie _lift xQueen Chance lit:
a Burmark _120 Peo Well 12(
xTravancorg 115 Astify ._ 12C
xBraggart _115 Four Seasons _ J2t
Rakish Jane_lift c xTurnstile 115
Gustaf _. 120 Casset _. _12C
c xHolidav Girl 110
a Kendrick and Martin entry,
c Oglebay and Thom entry.
THIRD RACE—Purse, $2,500; claiming:
3- year-olds: 6 furlongs.
xFernlet 100 xLa Patica __ lot
xGica _10B Phara Quest . Ill
Foreigner _ 110 a xH wk d Areas 111
xBramblette __ 106 xGold Tag 111
Dolomite . . 116 b Rough Ordy 111
xDot O Dash 106 b Cragy Whirl 111
a xDam’ns M'd 106 xLittle Push 101
xGold Coast 106 xTell Away lot
a Apheim Stable and Reynolds entry,
b Christmas and Eastwood entry.
FOURTH RACE—Purse. $2,600; maid
en 3-year-olds; 6 furlongs.
Ferry Command 102 Sir Imp _12(
xBlack Tea . 110 Lovat __ __ 12t
a Cedar Brand. 120 xPrognosis ._ Ill
xBallistic _ 115 Prancing Ted . 12<
xAdmirals Call 116 Rocket Gun llf
Sparrows Point 120 xBills Darling lit
Halgas _.120 a Git _ _ 121
In Time . ... 120
u i.Eudi rami mm.
FIFTH RACE—Purse, $2,500; claiming;
4-year-olds and up; 1 mile and 70 yards.
xLanceron _107 Minnie Ha Cha . 112
Some Where_ 115 xTeddy Lass .._ 107
xRose of Dawn. 110 xBaby L. _107
Miss Kalola 112
SIXTH RACE—Purse, *4.500: allow
ances; 3-year-olds and up; 6 furlongs.
a Hasteville_110 b East __ 101
a Happy Buckle. llti xRoyal Flush _ 100
c New Moon_120 b Director J. E._ 112
cThe Doge_120 Oeorge Case_100
xBrookfleld_118
a G. Ring entry. »
b Shouse and Bryson entry,
c Straus and Pentagon Stable entry.
SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $3,000; claim
ing; 3-year-olds; 0 furlongs.
xDale Maedic _ 104 Skean :_115
Happy Pat _ 107 Lucky Hit __ 107
Late Time _100 xMore Flame - 100
Azure Wings . 112 xArtillery Bob. 110
xSaikik Glow 107 Rough Cloud . llo
Grlan _ . 100
EIGHTH RACE—$2,500; claiming; 4
year-olds and upward: 1miles.
aBellclapper .. llfi xDizzy Heights 117
Handmedown _ 116 Rex Avis . 110
Time Play ___ llfi Jab Me _ llfi
Isle De Pine .. Ill Beanstalk _112
Solid Sender __ 114 a Tory How __ 116
a Sigelman and Bowers entry.
xApprentice allowance claimed.
House D.C. Unit Meets
Tomorrow to Press
Several Measures
Chairman McMillan of*the House
District Committee will seek action
at a meeting of his group at 10:30
a.m. tomorrow on the long-delayed
bill to strengthen municipal con
trols over persons having com
municable diseases.
He scheduled the session in the
hope committee action on this and
several other measures could be
concluded before the impending
Easter recess..
The $20,000,000 ten-year slum
clearance and redevelopment bill,
however, will not be ready for full
committee action, according to in
dications given by Chairman Mc
Gehee of the Judiciary Subcommit
tee.
No Immediate Meeting.
Mr. McGehee said he saw ‘no
hope” that his subcommittee could
meet this week. He mentioned again
that two of his subcommitteemen
are serving on the special group
i probing the troubles at the jail,
; Representative Harris, Democrat, of
j Arkansas, and O’Hara, Republican,
rvf Minripcntfl
In addition to the communicable
disease bill, to which several pro
posed amendments have been sub
mitted, the District Committee to
morrow is to take up the bill of
Representative Healy, Democrat, of
California, to provide for the opera
tion of child day-care centers here
in the next fiscal year, and the
Senate-passed bill providing for a
voluntary system of apprenticeship
in the District.
In addition the committee is to
consider the Keough bill to author
ize members and stockholders of
charitable, educational - and rellg-i
ious associations chartered in the
District to cast their votes on asso
ciation matters by proxy or by
; mail.
House Passes Loan Bill.
The House yesterday approved a
conference report on legislation to.
I enable underage veterans and their
i spouses to sign papers to obtain
| building association and other loans
to which they otherwise are eligible
: under the GI Bill of Rights. Senate
j adoption of revisions made by con
ferees between the two bodies would!
send the bill to the White House
for signature.
Attorney General Clark yesterday
notified Chairman McMillan he had
no changes to suggest in a bill pro
posing to broaden the scope of in
vestments which may be made by
trustees and fiduciaries handling
trust funds under wills and other
declarations or agreements. The bill
I would apply the Massachusetts
"prudent man" system to such trus
| tees.
Offering no amendments or crit
icisms, Mr. Clark said enactment
of the bill was a question of legis
lative policy on w’hich he had no
suggestions.
Palestine Tension Eases
As 1,200 Jews Win Entry
By th« Associated Pratt
JERUSALEM, April 17.—Tension
among the Jewish population in
Jerusalem eased today after an
nouncement bv the high commis
sioner of Palestine that 1.200 Jew
ish refugees detained aboard a ship
at La Spezia. Italy, would be granted
entry to this country.
The high commissioner notified
the Jewish agency that some of the
refugees would be granted immedi
ate entry and that the remainder
would be admitted subsequently
| under immigration quotas.
I His announcement brought an end
to a hunger strike on which 15
Jewish leaders embarked five days
ago in protest against detention of
the refugees.
Congress in Brief
By th* At»ociot«d Fr«t«
Senate:
Begins debate on proposed $3,750,
000,000 British loan.
Price Administrator Porter testi-,
fies in favor of OPA extension be
fore Banking Committee.
Labor Committee hears American
Medical Association witnesses on
compulsory’ health insurance bill.
Foreign Relations Subcommittee
considers reciprocal income tax con
vention with Great Britain.
House:
Starts voting on OPA extension
i legislation.
Democratic members plan to air
I intra-party row at caucus scheduled
immediately after House adjourns.
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Rover Recommends Penologist
Under D. C. Heads as Solution
tx-u. y Attorney
Opposes Federal
Jurisdiction Plan
Put District adult penal Institu
tions under a professional penologist
superintendent as a corrections de
partment of city government di
rectly responsible to the Commis
sioners.
This was the recommendation to
fay of Leo A. Rover, former United
States attorney, as a means of end
ing the present chaos of the local
prison system evidenced by the
escape of prisoners and the battle
oetween the Board of Public Welfare
ind Howard B. Gill, suspended gen
eral superintendent of penal insti
tutions.
Mr. Rover should know. He was
United States attorney from 1928 to
1934, during which period he pros
ecuted and sent to District penal
institutions many law violators. In
1944, after the escape of several pris
oners returning in a van to the jail,
be was designated by the Commis
sioners as chairman of a committee
to look into Jail operation. His com
mittee findings, coming at a time
when Ray Hull held both the post
of welfare director and superintend
ent of prisons, called for a prison
chief appointment which was fol
lowed by the board selection of Mr.
Gill.
Present Set-up "Won’t Work.”
Last December, when Mr. Gill was
recommended by the welfare board
for discharge after the November 24
escape of five men from Jail, Mr.
Rover and an unofficial committee
of citizens interested in the prisons
called on the city heads with the
recommendation for a separate de
partment of corrections. The com
mittee included Bruce Baird, presi
dent of the District Bankers' Asso
ciation: Dr. Frederick Reissig, of the
District Federation of Churches;
Wilbur La Roe, member of the Dis
trict parole board, and other promi
nent citizens.
Of one thing Mr. Rover is con
vinced. The present setup of prisons
under the Welfare Board will not
work. Now. he told The Star, the
superintendent of prisons deals with
a director of welfare, with a lay
penal committee of the Welfare
Board, with the Welfare Board
Itself, but never with the Commis
sioners. who hold the pursestrings
for what the prisons need.
“It's just a case of too many cooks
working on the same broth,” he ob
served.
The former United States attor
pey favors the corrections depart
ment under the Commissioners
rather than under the Bureau of
Prisons of the Justice Depart
ment. He conceded the prisons
might get larger money appropri
ations under the United States than
under the District, but looking at K
from a "civic point of view,” he
would like to see the city run its
own penal system.
"After all.” he said, “we run a
pretty good Police Department and
Fire Department. I don't see why
we can’t run good penal institutions,
too.”
Cites District's Interest.
The fact that crimes here are
:rimes against the Federal Govern
ment and are prosecuted by Fed
LEO A. ROVER.
eral attorneys in Federal court and
confined at the instance of the At
torney General does not necessarily
argue that the jails should also be
federally run. he believes.
Due to the unique status of the
Capital whereby Congress acts as a
local legislature and sets up local
statutes, murder and other felonies
become crimes against the Federal
Government because they are com
mitted in violation of acts of Con
gress. Actually, he said, they are
crimes against the community and
convicted criminals under those
statutes are really District rather
than Federal prisoners.
"We usually try to get a local man
as United States attorney, too,” he
added, “and many local men on the
court.”
If such a corrections department
as he suggests were to be estab
lished, Mr. Rover pointed out that
the city might have to forgo hav
ing a local man appointed superin
tendent since a qualified penologist
might not be found in the city. The
superintendent of corrections would
have to deal directly with the Com
missioners, “educating” them to the
needs of the institutions since they
are laymen as much as the Welfare
Board members.
"They should take his advice on
penal institutions the way they re
ly on the corporation counsel for
profesional legal counsel,” Mr. Ro
ver explained, "and hold him di
rectly responsible. If he fails, then
responsibility has been fixed and
you don't have the present situation
where the responsibility can’t be
pinned on anybody.”
Blame Is Shunted About.
Under the present system the Wel
fare Board is charged with the ex
clusive control of the penal institu
tions, but the Commisisoners hire
and fire all personnel, build all
buildings and pass on all money re
quests. When difficult situations
have occurred, each has tended to
blame the other.
Without going into personalities,
Mr. Rover said he found in his in
vestigation in 1943 the Welfare
Board knew little of how the jail
was operated.
The former United States attor
ney said the change of administra
tion is only one of the necessary
changes that ought to oe made.
There are important construction
weaknesses of the jail which should
be corrected, including fhe lack
of a wall with guard towers.
"I doubt if Joseph Medley and
Earl McFarland could have
escaped,” he said, ‘‘if there had
been a wall around the jail. They
got out of the building, but could
not have escaped from a walled in
closure.”
Mr. Rover recognized the over-all
money problems confronting the
District and said he felt a larger
Federal payment toward District ex
penses might help, especially since
Federal prisoners are confined in
the institution.
Also important to the ultimate
solution of the penal institutions
problems, according to Mr. Rover,
is a basic determination oi the
character of the institutions. Is the
jail, for example, to be used for
long confinements of persons con
victed of serious charges? Is it to
be a catch-all for petty violators
who fail to p^y a fine, make bond
or are perpetually drunk? Or is it
to house persons charged and await
ing trial? At present, he indicated,
both the jail and Lorton Reforma
tory are being handed all kinds oi
cases.
Britain Will Nationalize
Big Part of Steel Industry
By the Associated Press
LONDON, April 17.—Britain's iron
and steel industry is to be brought
largely under public ownership, John
Wilmot, Minister of Supply in the
Labor government, told the House of
Commons today.
Mr. Wilmot said the government
reached its decision after studying a
report by iron and steel industrialists
who had outlined a five to seven year
program of reorganization at an es
timated cost of $672,000,000.
“After full consideration the gov
ernment has reached the conclusion
that the position of the industry
and its importance in the national
economy necessitate a large meas
ure of public ownership and that
legislation for this purpose should
be prepared,” he said.
Truman Says He'd Like
To Visit Japan, China
President Truman told his news
conference today that he would
i like to visit Japan and China next
I summer when he is scheduled to
go to the Philippines, but that
I whether he would be able to make
[the longer trip depends on circum
I stances.
Mr. Truman said he is seriously
considering going to Manila July
4 when the Philippines receive their
independence. Following reports
that he might go to Japan, it was
said at the White House yesterday
that such a trip was not foreclosed.
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